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Thursday, October 20, 2005

US soldiers in Afghanistan burnt the bodies of dead Taliban

US soldiers in Afghanistan burnt the bodies of dead Taliban andtaunted their opponents about the corpses, in an act deeply offensiveto Muslims and in breach of the Geneva conventions.An investigation by SBS's Dateline program, to be aired tonight,filmed the burning of the bodies.

It also filmed a US Army psychological operations unit broadcasting amessage boasting of the burnt corpses into a village believed to beharbouring Taliban.

According to an SBS translation of the message, delivered in the locallanguage, the soldiers accused Taliban fighters near Kandahar of being"cowardly dogs". "You allowed your fighters to be laid down facingwest and burnt. You are too scared to retrieve their bodies. This justproves you are the lady boys we always believed you to be," themessage reportedly said.

"You attack and run away like women. You call yourself Taliban but youare a disgrace to the Muslim religion, and you bring shame upon yourfamily. Come and fight like men instead of the cowardly dogs you are."[PsyOp calls Taliban "girly men". -d.c. ]